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Book SynopsisExplores the impact of digital technologies on the logic of cultural capitalism
Trade Review'Chanan's rich historical investigations of the evolving technologies of artistic production provide a fascinating new basis for a politics of culture'
-- Michael Hardt, author of 'The Subversive 70s'
'Drawing on nearly fifty years of writing and teaching about the media and making films, Michael Chanan presents us with a series overlapping histories of different media technologies, which is both authoritative and original'
-- Julian Petley, Honorary and Emeritus Professor of Journalism at Brunel University, London
'Michael Chanan's brilliant synthesis, replete with fascinating detail, both boggles the mind and deeply educates'
-- Claudia Gorbman, Professor Emerita of Film Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma
Table of ContentsSeries Preface
Preface
1. Autonomy of the Aesthetic
2. The Changing Logic of Artistic Production
3. Cultural Commodification
4. Countercurrents
5. From Analog to Digital
6. Creativity Reconsidered
Bibliography
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